Ok, so here's the first one. I stole this from my friend's blog but found it interesting. It determines your mental age, but the test is in Japanese. It took me one run to figure out the actual test (I scored an age of 58 on the first run), but once I figured it out, my mental age was 27 (and that test took place while I was on the phone with one of my agents). All right! I might look like I'm 45, but I've got the brain of a 27-year-old. Here's the test if you want to try (you might have to cut and paste it) ....
http://flashfabrica.com/f_learning/brain/brain.html
Next up, I have a rant (feel free to skip over this part). I'm not sure if this is the same in every school district, but the school supply lists are getting obnoxious. I was conservative with my spending and decided to reuse many items and still wound up spending $115 and I'm not even done!
I have to expect that some people had it worse since we didn't have any scientific calculators to purchase. We did, however, have items like a flash drive, two boxes of markers for one child (one box having the pink and gray marker!), twenty four pencils for a child in third grade (is the teacher's husband a lumberjack?), many 2" 3-ring binders in specific colors, etc. I feel bad for the single mom on a really tight budget. This has to be impossible. This is not like school clothes where you can buy them at a thrift store or at a garage sale for pennies on the dollar (or better yet, have your sister from Oklahoma send you all her beautiful hand-me-downs...thank you Tam), you have to pay full price or waste your gas running around looking for the sale.
What happened to getting your lovely smelling paste (no, never ate any... just liked the smell), your box of 48 crayons (a luxury, but we never got the 64 box with the sharpener), and your fistful of pencils? I think the teachers are going a little overboard and not taking into consideration people that have more than one child in the school system. For this price, I could buy a curriculum for my kids and homeschool them. All right, I'm done. *stepping off soapbox* Here are some photos of the lists and the current supplies waiting to be sorted...
On a completely unrelated note, Allie woke up with crazy hair and I had to snap a photo of it. Isn't she cute? I love the curly hair. I fear when her hair thickens a bit, it will go away so I need to snap as many pictures of it now while I can.
I'll try to have my life a little more together for the next post.... it might be a while....
1 comment:
Wow, what a cutie.
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